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Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling...
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern...
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas Publisher Comments A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.<BR>...
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Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honig Publisher Comments In July 1995, despite clear warnings and the presence of UN troops, Bosnian Sorbs at Srebrenica perpetrated the single worst war crime since the end of the Second World War. While the world stood by and watched, Sorb forces advanced into the 'safe area...
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Cafe Europa: Life After Communism
by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much...
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Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
by Carnegie Endowment Publisher Comments The guns have fallen silent in the former Yugoslavia. But the Dayton truce has yet to become a lasting peace. Peace in the Balkans remain threatened not only by the possibility of a new war in Bosnia, but also by unresolved conflict in Kosova and...
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Voices from Vilna
by Helaine Shoag Greenberg Publisher Comments To my great joy, I found poignant letters in my family home describing my father's and his family's life and current events from 1930 to 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania. On a roots trip there in 2000, the letters were shown to the Director of the Vilna Gaon...
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe
by Gil Eyal Publisher Comments Making Capitalism Without Capitalists offers a new theory of the transition to capitalism. By telling the story of how capitalism is being built in post-communist Central Europe it guides us towards a deeper understanding of the origins of modern...
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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley Publisher Comments In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to...
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Bulgaria Country Studies: Area Handbook
by Glenn E Curtis Publisher Comments 2d edition. Edited by Glenn E. Curtis. Research completed June 1992. Describes and analyzes the history, politics, economics, sociology, and national security systems of Bulgaria....
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Economics of Transition in Eastern Europe
by O Blanchard Publisher Comments Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, as Blanchard points out, has adhered to a U-shaped response in terms of economic output--that is, a sharp decline in output followed by a recovery. Today, most of the countries of Central Europe seem to have...
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Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe After Communism
by J F Brown Publisher Comments "There simply is nothing currently available with the degree of breadth and perceptiveness that covers the topic."--Roger Kanet, Director of International Programs and Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana...
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Serbs and Croats: Struggle N Yugoslovia
by Alex N Dragnich Publisher Comments In this highly informative account, Professor Dragnich discusses the ideals and hopes that the South Slavs brought to Yugoslavia, their tortured attempt to create a workable political system, and the reasons behind the recent chaos and violence. "Concise,...
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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley Publisher Comments In August 2000, Paula Huntley's husband took a leave of absence from his teaching post at a law school, and she resigned from her marketing job of thirteen years. Huntley's husband had signed on with the American Bar Association to help rebuild Kosovo's...
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Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant
by Dusko Doder Publisher Comments Who is Slobodan Milosevic? Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute...
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Ruined Landscapes: Paintings of the Balkan War Zone
by Ross Yockey Synopsis Yockey's text and Buxton's paintings capture five hundred years of conflict in Bosnia among Serbs, Muslims, and Croats....
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War 1914: Punishing the Serbs
by Tim Coates Synopsis Dealing with the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, this report contains the diplomatic exchanges that followed the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Some argued for immediate military action, while others pleaded that...
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The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement
by Nader Mousavizadeh Publisher Comments The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and...
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Yugoslavias Bloody Collapse
by Christopher Bennett Synopsis This volume argues that Yugoslavia's disintegration was not the product of ethnic animosities, but that the turning-point came when a struggle was waged within the Serbian Communist party between adherents of a nationalist ideology and those who clung to...
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Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of the Slobodan Milosevic
by Lenard Cohen Publisher Comments The violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, and its aftermath, highlight the importance of a detailed understanding of the Balkan region. The political outlook and behavior of the Serbs and Serbian elites has been particularly bewildering to...
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